Cloud · head to head
Qovery vs Render
Qovery
Cloud
Deployment platform that provisions and operates Kubernetes inside your own cloud account
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- On request
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The short version
- Only Render has a free tier, so it costs nothing to try first.
- Each has a real cost: Qovery no plan publishes a price, deployment minute overage rates are not disclosed, and there is a 14 day trial rather than a free tier, so you cannot budget or compare against alternatives without going through sales.; Render the free Hobby workspace is limited to 25 services and 5 GB of bandwidth
- They diverge on capability: Qovery covers Bring your own cloud, Render covers Web services.
- Prices and features above were last checked on 31 August 2026.
Where they differ
Only the attributes on which Qovery and Render actually diverge.
Identical on both: user rating (Not yet rated), category (Cloud).
What each one covers
Drawn from each product's published feature list. An absence here means we hold no record of it - not that the product lacks it.
Only in Qovery
- Bring your own cloud
- Preview environments
- Cluster lifecycle
- Terraform provider
- MCP server
- Policy as code
Only in Render
- Web services
- Static sites
- Background workers
- Postgres database
- Redis database
- Scheduled jobs
- Environment variables
- Custom domains
What people use each for
The jobs each tool is most often brought in to do.
Qovery
- A regulated business that must keep application data inside its own AWS account but has nobody to build a deployment platformnot Render
- Giving twenty engineers preview environments per pull request without writing and maintaining Terraform and Helm by handnot Render
- Standardising deployment across AWS and GCP when acquisitions have left the organisation on two cloudsnot Render
- Replacing a managed platform when data residency rules put every hosted option out of reachnot Render
Render
- Deploying web services, static sites and cron jobs from a Git repository without managing serversnot Qovery
- Running managed Postgres and Redis alongside application servicesnot Qovery
- Preview environments per pull request for small teamsnot Qovery
Where each one falls short
Documented limitations, not opinions. Every one is a constraint you would hit in normal use.
Qovery
- No plan publishes a price, deployment minute overage rates are not disclosed, and there is a 14 day trial rather than a free tier, so you cannot budget or compare against alternatives without going through sales.
- The GPL-3.0 engine and console do not constitute a self-hostable product, because the control plane and API are closed and the self-hosted option is gated behind Enterprise, so the open licence gives you no exit if the company changes direction.
- Qovery provisions managed Kubernetes into your account, which means the cloud bill sits on top of the licence and Qovery initiates control plane and ingress controller upgrades on infrastructure your team is accountable for.
- The company repositioned to agentic infrastructure in June 2026 and now ships a deployment platform, a browser development portal and autonomous coding agents concurrently, so a buyer of the deployment product is not at the centre of the roadmap.
- Team and Business are capped at two and three connected clusters with fixed 4 vCPU CI runners and no single sign-on on Team, which pushes teams of moderate size onto quoted Enterprise pricing earlier than the plan names imply.
Render
- The free Hobby workspace is limited to 25 services and 5 GB of bandwidth
- Every paid plan charges the workspace fee plus compute on top, so $25 per month for Pro is a floor rather than a total
- SAML SSO and SCIM require the Scale plan at $499 per month
- HIPAA-compliant workspaces, inbound IP rules and advanced RBAC roles are Scale plan features
- Organization-level audit logs require Scale; Pro provides only workspace audit logs
- Contractual uptime SLAs, support response SLAs and a technical account manager are Enterprise only, and Enterprise is custom priced with no published rate
- Included bandwidth is 25 GB on Pro and 1 TB on Scale, with usage beyond that billed separately
Pricing, plan by plan
Qovery
On request- Team$undefined/year
- Billed on usage with no published rate card
- 10 users, up to 100 environments, 2 connected clusters
- 5,000 deployment minutes and 7 day audit logs
- Business$undefined/year
- Billed on usage with no published rate card
- 20 users, up to 250 environments, 3 connected clusters
- 10,000 deployment minutes and 30 day audit logs
- Enterprise$undefined/year
- Custom users, environments and clusters
- Self-hosted or air-gapped control plane
- On-premises and bring-your-own-Kubernetes
Render
Free- FreeFree
- 1 web service
- 1 static site
- Shared CPU
- Starter$7/month
- Unlimited services
- Dedicated CPU
- 2GB RAM
Which should you pick?
Choose Qovery if
- You need bring your own cloud.
- You work on Web, CLI, REST API, Kubernetes.
- You also want preview environments.
Choose Render if
- You need web services.
- You want to start without paying.
- You work on Web, Api.
- You also want static sites.
Questions people ask
- Is Qovery or Render better?
- Neither clearly leads. Qovery starts at On request and Render at Free, and user ratings are close enough to be indistinguishable. Choose on capability and platform support.
- Which is cheaper, Qovery or Render?
- Render has a free tier; the other does not. Paid plans start at On request for Qovery and Free for Render.
- Does Qovery or Render run on more platforms?
- Qovery runs on Web, CLI, REST API, Kubernetes. Render runs on Web, Api.
- Can I use Render for free?
- Yes. Render has a free tier, so you can try it without paying. Qovery starts at On request.
- What is Qovery best used for?
- Qovery is most often used for a regulated business that must keep application data inside its own aws account but has nobody to build a deployment platform, giving twenty engineers preview environments per pull request without writing and maintaining terraform and helm by hand, standardising deployment across aws and gcp when acquisitions have left the organisation on two clouds, replacing a managed platform when data residency rules put every hosted option out of reach. Of those, a regulated business that must keep application data inside its own aws account but has nobody to build a deployment platform and giving twenty engineers preview environments per pull request without writing and maintaining terraform and helm by hand are not what Render is typically brought in for.
- What can Qovery do that Render cannot?
- Qovery covers Bring your own cloud, Preview environments, Cluster lifecycle, Terraform provider. Render covers Web services, Static sites, Background workers, Postgres database.
Answered from the vendors’ own pages
Qovery: Does Qovery run my applications on its own servers?
No. It provisions and operates Kubernetes inside your AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account, so compute and data stay with your cloud provider and that bill is entirely separate from the Qovery licence.
Render: What is Render's pricing?
Render's pricing details are not disclosed on the public pricing page. The site references workspace plans, compute services, and features but does not display specific costs. Users must visit the pricing page directly or contact Render for detailed information.
SourceQovery: Can I self-host Qovery?
Only on Enterprise. The deployment engine and console are GPL-3.0, but the control plane is closed source and the self-hosted and air-gapped deployments are commercial Enterprise features.
Qovery: What does it cost?
Qovery does not publish a rate card. Team and Business are billed on usage and quoted through sales, and Enterprise is fully custom. There is a 14 day trial with no card required.
Qovery: What survives if I stop paying?
The Kubernetes cluster and the workloads keep running in your cloud account, but you lose the console, the deployment pipeline, preview environments and every process built on top of them.
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